NALC President Fredric V. Rolando’s statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s financial report for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, covering January, February and March. The $576 million quarterly operating profit announced today by the Postal Service is positive news for an agency that enjoys widespread public support. The continuing financial upswing shows the importance of […]
2016 Food Drive video: The story behind the story By Community and Membership Outreach Coordinator Pam Donato in the April 2016 Postal Record: Each year, NALC produces a video that is sent to each branch registered for the Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive. The video comes to fruition with professional filming and editing work […]
NALC News – Mar 31, 2016 – The U.S. Postal Service’s February 2016 and year-to-date 2016 results were posted earlier last week on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s website. They can be found here. For the month of February, the Postal Service had a $233 million operating profit. Year-to-date through February 2016 (the first 5 months of […]
NALC – March 29, 2016 Public unions score victory with Supreme Court decision The Supreme Court deadlocked 4 to 4 on Tuesday in a case that had threatened to cripple the ability of public unions to collect fees from workers who chose to not join and did not want to pay for the unions’ collective […]
The March 2016 list of city letter carrier positions available for transfer under the provisions of M-01856 is now available. Click here to review the list. The list is in Microsoft Excel. If you don’t have Excel, you can try opening the file using Sheets under Google Docs.
Rolando appointed AFL-CIO finance committee vice chairman during labor fed’s winter meeting NALC President Fredric Rolando was appointed vice chairman of the AFL-CIO’s finance committee during the federation’s executive council meeting this week in San Diego. The president sits on the council as one of its vice presidents. During its sessions this week, the council […]
NALC, USPS formally open bargaining talks NALC President Fredric Rolando and USPS Postmaster General Megan Brennan met today at NALC Headquarters in Washington, DC, to formally open negotiations for a new collective-bargaining agreement. The present 2011-2016 agreement, covering more than 204,000 active city letter carriers employed by USPS, is set to expire at midnight on […]
On January 27, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, John McCain, former Secretary-Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1016 (located in Poplar Bluff, Mo.), was indicted on one count of embezzlement of $30,948 in labor union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The indictment […]
NALC has received from the U.S. Postal Service this stand-up talk about the Zika virus (below) along with related information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the virus. Mandatory Stand-Up Talk Feb.11, 2016 Zika virus in the news You may have heard news reports about the Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquito bites. The […]
NALC 2/12/16 – NALC has scored a significant victory in national arbitration involving the authority of regular panel arbitrators to provide a remedy when the Postal Service wrongfully causes a letter carrier to lose accrued annual leave. In an award issued Feb. 3, 2016, National Arbitrator Dennis Nolan has rejected the Postal Service’s attempt to […]